Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Education
Feb 1: Over 40,000 striking workers join London NEU march
Running Time: 10 min 14 secs Over 40,000 striking workers were on the London NEU march on February 1, as university lecturers, civil servants and railworkers joined education workers on the biggest day of action […]
Construction/Blacklisting
Sparks Unofficial action shuts down Balfour Beatty sites all over the UK
Film Length: 10:00 ***FULL RESOLUTION VERSION AVAILABLE ON REEL NEWS 30 *** After 81% of Balfour Beatty electricians vote to strike against a 35% pay cut and national agreements being torn up, the company threaten […]
Civil Servants
DVLA workers strike to change the most dangerous workplace in the UK
Running Time: 6mins 9secs 600 COVID-19 infections since September. Thousands have had to self-isolate. 60 more infections just in the past fortnight. One worker dead. And now workers at the DVLA in Swansea have been […]